# Post ts_111599861583911538 - Post ID: `ts_111599861583911538` - Platform: Truth Social - Posted: 2023-12-18T05:52:27.314Z (UTC) - Deleted: no - Repost: no - Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599861583911538 - Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599861583911538/analysis - Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111599861583911538.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording) ## Post text > As soon as we win the election, the momentum of our great victory will immediately begin stopping the hordes of illegal alien migrants who are charging across our border by the hundreds of thousands… ## What the media says **Video transcript** (0:55), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his: > Our border had never been stronger, but then Crooked Joe came in and he launched an invasion against our country. This is an invasion. This is like a military invasion. Drugs, criminals, gang members, and terrorists are pouring into our country at record levels. We've never seen anything like it. They're taking over our cities. Under Biden, you have the highest number of illegal border crossings in the history of our country. By far the highest number of illegal visa overstays, and by far a new record being set every single week on drugs and every other lousy thing that's coming into our country. But as soon as we win the election, the momentum of our great victory will immediately begin stopping the hordes of illegal alien migrants who are charging across our border by the hundreds of thousands. ## Media - video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/599/861/525/139/930/original/0b5d146ae2a7d815.mp4 ## Engagement - Likes: 6,660 - Reposts: 1,484 - Replies: 150 - Views: unknown - Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.387Z (UTC) # Analysis _Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-20T14:51:18.019Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._ ## Summary Post-rally grandiosity drives this authentic late-evening post from Reno, Nevada (21:52 PST). The clinical signature is consistent with Trump's established campaign-mode grandiose narcissistic state: presumptive victory declaration, mass dehumanization of migrants, and fear-appeal rhetoric operating through kinetic threat vocabulary. "Hordes...charging across our border" deploys documented dehumanization technique — erasing individual humanity through mass-noun framing — occurring within days of the "poisoning the blood" speech, marking a coherent rhetorical escalation campaign rather than isolated expression. Defense mechanisms are splitting (clean us/them binary), projection (aggressor role inverted onto migrants), and reality distortion (border crossing reframed as military assault). Cognitive functioning shows no deviation from baseline; incompleteness is rhetorical, not cognitive. The trigger is post-rally supply-seeking rather than narcissistic injury; the psychological engine is crowd-derived positive affect converted into dominance-display aggression against the designated out-group. Danger level is elevated not from this post in isolation but from its position as a node in a sustained dehumanization campaign. No stochastic terrorism threshold crossed; no specific individuals targeted. Longitudinal monitoring of the immigration dehumanization cluster (this post + "poisoning the blood") is warranted given documented historical patterns linking mass dehumanization rhetoric to normalization of group-directed violence. ## Comprehensive Psychological Analysis ### Authorship Attribution **Verdict: High confidence authentic (Trump himself)** UTC timestamp 05:52:27 converts to 21:52 PST (9:52 PM) on December 17, 2023 in Reno, Nevada — where the surrounding post cluster confirms Trump had just completed a campaign rally. Late-evening timing falls squarely within his documented authentic-posting window. Style markers reinforce this: the trailing ellipsis indicating interrupted or continued thought, the hyperbolic mass noun ("hordes"), the visceral kinetic verb ("charging"), and the unprompted victory declaration ("our great victory") before any vote has been cast. This reads as raw post-rally energy captured in real-time and is consistent with his oral rally register. --- ### Psychological State and Triggers **Trigger: Supply-seeking / post-rally maintenance** The surrounding post cluster — "Record setting crowd. Thank you Reno, Nevada, my great honor!" — establishes a clear post-rally hypomanic-adjacent elevation. This post extends that energy into policy territory, using crowd validation as a launching pad for immigration rhetoric. Narcissistic supply obtained from the rally is being immediately re-deployed as political momentum, consistent with the pattern in which positive crowd events produce expansive, aggressive subsequent communications. **Narcissistic State: Grandiose** The presumptive framing — "as soon as we win the election" — is not hedged doubt but declarative certainty. "The momentum of our great victory" presupposes the electoral outcome. This grandiose presumption is characteristic of Trump's campaign-mode communications but is intensified here by post-rally affect. --- ### Multi-Level Personality Framework **Level 1 — Dispositional Traits:** - **Extraversion** (high): Assertive, energized, amplified affect. - **Agreeableness** (very low): Dehumanizing framing of migrants; no tender-mindedness or trust extended to out-group. - **Neuroticism — Angry Hostility** (elevated): Threat activation vocabulary despite grandiose surface affect. - **Openness** (very low): Rigid, binary schema with no complexity admitted. **Level 2 — Characteristic Adaptations:** - **Agency motive** dominates: power over borders, control of national narrative, achievement (winning). - **Communion motive** negligible in this post; no care or belonging extended beyond in-group. - **Schema:** World as dangerous invasion requiring a strong leader; self as uniquely capable of containment. **Level 3 — Narrative Identity:** - **Protagonist role:** Warrior/Savior — sole figure capable of stopping the invasion. - **Contamination sequence (implied):** America was secure → migrants are destroying it → Trump restores it. Standard redemption-through-Trump arc. - **Contrasting other:** "Hordes of illegal alien migrants" — faceless, numberless, kinetically aggressive mass. - **Identity claims:** Competent victor, border protector, restorer of national order. - **Redemption sequence:** Win election → momentum → stop the invasion. Linear, triumphant. --- ### Defense Mechanisms - **Splitting (immature):** Clean binary between us (American people/voters) and them (illegal alien migrants as threatening undifferentiated mass). No individual humanity acknowledged, no complexity admitted. - **Projection (immature):** Aggressive kinetic energy ("charging") is attributed to migrants rather than to the political movement mobilizing against them. The aggressor narrative is inverted. - **Distortion (pathological):** Framing border crossings — largely composed of asylum-seekers and economic migrants — as a military assault ("charging across our border") grossly reshapes empirical reality to serve internal needs. --- ### Rhetorical & Propaganda Analysis **Dehumanizing Language:** "Hordes" is a mass noun historically applied to invading armies and animal aggregations. Its application to human beings erases individual humanity and reconstitutes migrants as an existential military threat. This is not incidental metaphor; it is a documented dehumanization technique with structural parallels in pre-violence political rhetoric (Rwanda 1994: "inyenzi/cockroaches"; Nazi Germany: "Ungeziefer/vermin"). The pattern is notable for occurring in close temporal proximity to Trump's "poisoning the blood" speech at a New Hampshire rally during the same week. **Fear Appeal:** The visual vocabulary — "charging across," "hundreds of thousands," "hordes" — is designed to activate threat-response circuitry rather than deliberative cognition. The incomplete sentence (ellipsis) and attached video suggest extraction from oral rally speech, preserving crowd-amplified fear cadence. **False Dichotomy:** Only a Trump victory stops the "hordes" — binary between salvation (Trump wins) and invasion (Trump loses). No policy complexity admitted. **Appeal to Momentum:** "The momentum of our great victory will immediately begin stopping" — not a policy promise but an almost magical-causal framing in which electoral victory itself generates a force field at the border. **Superlative / hyperbole:** "Great victory," "hundreds of thousands" — consistent with Trump's documented superlative register. --- ### Cognitive Status Assessment No deviation from baseline. Sentence structure is coherent, if syntactically incomplete by design (ellipsis = continued in video). No word-finding difficulty, paraphasia, or temporal confusion observed. Vocabulary level consistent with Trump's established oral/social media register. The incompleteness is rhetorical (cliff-hanger leading to video), not cognitive. Complexity score is at low-normal baseline; this is characteristically simple, high-affect campaign language. --- ### Danger Assessment **Elevated.** The dehumanizing framing ("hordes...charging") occurs within days of Trump's "poisoning the blood" immigration speech — indicating a consistent rhetorical escalation pattern around migration dehumanization during this campaign phase. No specific individuals are targeted and no explicit action is called for, precluding a stochastic terrorism classification at this post level. However, the cumulative pattern of dehumanization normalizes violence against the designated out-group in the broader media ecosystem. The "charging" kinetic framing implicitly licenses counter-force. This post is a node in a broader dehumanization campaign rather than an isolated incident. --- ### Gaslighting Assessment **Absent** in this specific post. The content is forward-looking campaign rhetoric rather than reality-revision about documented past events. No DARVO, no denial of documented events. --- ### Epistemic Closure **Present.** The immigration situation is presented in absolute, binary terms with no acknowledgment of legal complexity, asylum law, push-factor economics, or demographic nuance. The framing forecloses deliberation by design. --- ### Fact Verification | Claim | Verdict | Evidence | |-------|---------|----------| | "Migrants charging across border by the hundreds of thousands" | **Half True** | Border encounters in FY2023 reached historically high levels with multiple months exceeding 200,000 CBP encounters. Scale claim has approximate empirical grounding. However, 'charging' implies intentional military aggression; the documented population is predominantly asylum-seekers and economic migrants exercising legal or quasi-legal border-crossing behavior. The framing is materially misleading as to character even where scale is grounded. | Overall Veracity: 50% ## Authorship Analysis **Self-Written** (score: 88%) ### Indicators - Late evening post (21:52 PST) in his Nevada local timezone — within authentic Trump posting window - Trailing ellipsis consistent with transcribed oral rally speech - Hyperbolic mass-noun dehumanization ('hordes') matches documented Trump immigration register - Visceral kinetic verb ('charging') is characteristic Trump threat-framing vocabulary - Presumptive victory declaration ('as soon as we win') reflects unfiltered grandiosity, not polished aide copy ## Psychological Profile ### State **Grandiose State** **Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Reno rally crowd validation) Sentiment: -0.42 **Mildly Hypomanic** - Post-rally expansiveness: 'record setting crowd' post immediately preceding - Presumptive victory declaration before any vote cast - Late-evening posting during travel/campaign schedule - Rapid successive posting cluster on same date - Grandiose momentum framing ('our great victory will immediately begin stopping') ### Clinical **Malignant Narcissism:** - Narcissistic: 78% - Antisocial: 62% - Paranoid: 42% - Sadism: 32% **Defense Mechanisms:** - splitting (immature) - projection (immature) - distortion (pathological) **Cognitive Complexity:** - Complexity: 28% **Parasocial Techniques:** - Direct address 'we' creates shared-identity with rally audience - Presumptive victory declaration invites followers to inhabit the winning narrative pre-emptively - Threat escalation activates tribal protection instinct ## Danger Assessment **ELEVATED** ### Indicators - Dehumanizing mass-noun framing: 'hordes of illegal alien migrants' erases individual humanity - Kinetic aggression attribution to migrants: 'charging across our border' frames humans as invading military force - Temporal clustering with 'poisoning the blood' speech — indicates sustained dehumanization escalation campaign, not isolated instance - Binary framing (Trump wins = invasion stopped; Trump loses = invasion continues) implicitly licenses counter-force logic - Pattern consistent with documented pre-violence rhetorical structures in comparative political history **Dehumanizing Language Present** **Violent Imagery Present** ## Fact Checks (1) _The model's verdicts from 2026-03-20._ > Migrants charging across border by the hundreds of thousands **HALF TRUE** Border encounters in FY2023 reached historically high levels with multiple months exceeding 200,000 CBP encounters. Scale claim has approximate empirical grounding. However, 'charging' implies intentional military aggression; the documented population is predominantly asylum-seekers and economic migrants exercising legal or quasi-legal border-crossing behavior. The framing is materially misleading as to character even where scale is grounded. Sources: CBP FY2023 encounter data (training knowledge) Overall Veracity: 50% ## Tags - immigration_dehumanization (95%) - post_rally_grandiosity (88%) - horde_framing (92%) - presumptive_victory (82%) - splitting_defense (85%) - fear_appeal (88%) - campaign_rhetoric (75%) - authentic_trump (88%) - dehumanizing_language (90%) - escalation_pattern (80%) ## That day _From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._ **Post-Rally Grandiosity Crumbles Into Courtroom Rage as Fraud Trial Motion Denied** Trump rode the high of a Reno rally and a rowdy UFC appearance for most of the day, flooding his feed with crowd-size boasts, campaign promises, and flattering news links. The mood was triumphant and self-congratulatory, with sweeping pledges to prevent World War III and end child trafficking. But the day took a sharp turn in the late afternoon when a judge denied his motion to dismiss the New York civil fraud case, triggering a burst of angry posts attacking the judge and attorney general by name. The contrast between the morning's victory lap and the evening's courtroom fury defined the day. Full digest for 2023-12-18: https://trump.fm/date/2023-12-18/analysis ## Citation - APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, December 18). As soon as we win the election, the momentum of... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599861583911538 - MLA: Trump, Donald J. "As soon as we win the election, the momentum of our great..." Truth Social, 18 Dec. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111599861583911538. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026. - Chicago: Donald J. 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